Friday, December 7, 2012

The rest of my day

I'm ready to tell you about the rest of my very boring day
Admittedly, Friday is a very slow day for me.  I try not to see clients, and I tend not to do any paperwork either.  That is partially because I really want a day off, and partially because, by the end of the week, I'm just out of energy.  So I did go to my office at about 10:10, in order to get ready to see my 11 o'clock client.  There is a ramp to get into my building but it was added after the building was built and it is very steep, so I'd rather just  hoist myself up the very tall step.  I can't walk and do something else at the same time.  So I have to stop inside the door to find my key.  Once I'm in my office I'm  generally okay.  After a Play Therapy session, there is sometimes a great big mess and depending on how much energy I have, I try to immediately throw things back on shelves.  But if I'm too tired, I'll just leave it for another day.  I know there is a mess in the play right now, but I was seeing adults today, so I  left it for tomorrow.  After my session, I really wanted to try out this new burger joint called American Wild Burger, but there was a pretty long line and I knew I couldn't stand there the whole time.  Fortunately, my husband hadn't eaten anything when I got home (he currently works at home repairing brass instruments in the garage), so we got to try out American Wild Burger after all.  It was pretty yummy by the way.
A couple of years ago my mom gave me a whole bunch of beads.  She used to make bracelets but got tired of it and was going to throw them away.  So I  took them to use with the kids.  But they are really cool and I really like, and I ended up making my own jewelry.  I think my sister and my mom are tired of getting beaded bracelets and rings!  However, I'm still making things but I needed some string and some twin beads for project.  There is a really cool bead store around the corner from me.  So I don't have to go very far I when I need something, thank goodness.
The store is packed full of things.  And there are always a lot of people there.  It's those kinds of places that are sort of treacherous for me.  I always run into things, drop stuff, whack people with my bag... stuff like that.  I spend most of the time apologizing and being fearful that I'm going to break something.  Fortunately once again people are always willing to help me so I got what I needed and came home.  Now, I know that this is a very limited amount things to do in one day.  But everything is effort and I felt wiped out, so I took a nap.
Tomorrow I have 5 client spread out between nine and three o'clock.  Four of them are play therapy clients and one  is a young man struggling with depression. I don't want to quit being a therapist.  But I do want to have to quit struggling to get paid from the insurance companys.  I spent so much of my energy on the business aspect of things, so I have a lot less energy to actually work with clients.  I had a partnership for awhile and that helped a little on the business end, but that didn't work out.  But that's a whole other story.
I think I sound a little like a whiney today.  But sometimes I just want to have some blatant self pity.  But don't you give me any pity, because that would piss me off.

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